Ok, I know the thread title makes this seem like a crackpot conspiracy but stick with me.
From Trespasser we know that Solas obviously has and had elven agents operating in Thedas even before he woke up. There were obvious agents who had survived the sundering of the veil and fall of Arlathan like Felassan and Abelas and there seem to be normal, everyday Dalish and city elven agents in mainstream Thedosian society as per Trespasser and the epilogue slides.
Sandal is a dwarf. But he is pure dwarf? There's certain dialogue in Legacy between members of the Carta talking about Sandal in his capacity as Hawke's servant. The carta members note that he looks like King Endrin Aeducan's bastard who ran off at a young age. They also note that said bastard's mother was an elven mistress of Endrin's. (Just realized this makes Sandal's the dwarf noble warden's half brother, which is kind of awesome.) And we know that the offspring of elves who mate with human or dwarves will themselves look human or dwarf respectively.
Anyway, in both Origins and DA2 we walk in on Sandal presumably right after he obliterated hordes of darkspawn by himself. As per usual, he simply says "enhanctment" but it's hard to see how "enhchantment" and runecraft alone can save him from he darkspawn hordes. And even though he does things like freeze entire ogres in a giant block of ice, we know dwarves can't be mages. But what about half dwarves? Maybe not, but what about half dwaves-half elves who are under the guidance and influence of Fen'Harel?
As we saw throughout Inquistion, Solas is a sneaky, utilitarian bastard, so I posit that Sandal's mother was an agent of Fen'Harel and produced Sandal, a seeming halfwit savant, to be one of his agents while he was still asleep but getting close to waking up. It was the influence of Fen'Harel that made Sandal run off into the Deep Roads and find Bodhan, whom was unwittingly influenced by his adopted son under Fen'Harel's direction.
Although Bodhan is likely unaware of it, I believe that Sandal (under Fen'Harel's influence) engineered their meeting with the warden and Hawke. We know that Flemythal has the capacity to foresee certain events like the Blight and her (possible) eventual "death" at the warden's hands and uses the warden and Hawke for her own purposes (stopping the Blight and her resurrection respectively). She also plants Morrigan with the Warden to guide him/her. I would suspect that two ancient elven "gods" operate similarly as they try to influence the simpering, "tranquilized" mortals of post-veil Thedas. Likewise, I'm sure Solas also has the foresight, or at least the fade visions, to know that the Warden and Hawke will be important to the future of Thedas. Or at the very least, recongize Flemythal's interest in them. However, we know from Inquistion/Trespasser that Solas prefers to do this sort of thing covertly, and what better eyes and ears than a halfwit dwarf savant who can only say "enchantment" that both protagonists seemed to meet by chance. That way Solas has eyes and ears with these two protagonists that can't be traced back to an ancient mythic trickster god -- even by someone like Merrill or a Dalish warden.
We get even more explicit connections between Sandal and Solas in DA2. There is of course Sandal's easter egg prophecy, which seems to be about Corypheus at first glance but is more likely about Solas:
"Sandal: One day the magic will come back. All of it. Everyone will be just like they were. The shadows will part, and the skies will open wide.
Bodahn: Huh. What's this?
Sandal: When he rises, everyone will see.
Bodahn: By the ancestors, what's gotten into you, my boy?
Sandal: Enchantment?
Bodahn: Hmph. That's more like it."
How exactly does our beloved, unassuming halfwit savant know so much about the real Dread Wolf exactly? Hmmmmm.
Also in DA 2, Sandal may mention the fact that a scary woman stands over his bed while he sleeps. It's heavily implied that this is Flemythal. If she suspects that he's an agent of Fen'Heral, it makes sense that she would take such a creepy interest in our beloved enchanter.
Obviously Solas did not have to place Sandal with the Inquisition in DA:I because he ends up there himself. As such, where better to put him than in Celene's imperial court, the heart of one of Thedas's two great empires, in a position of high esteem with constant access to Thedosian elites? As Solas says at the Winter Palace, always pay attention to the servants. (If only the Inquisitor had heeded this advice in Trespasser).
I mean....ENCHANTMENT!
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